Her Maternity Test Came Back Negative and No One Could Figure Out Why

The Gene Ban

This discovery happened years after her death with samples from her DNA and clothing. As a result, all female athletes with a Y-chromosome or an SRY-gene were expelled from competing, just like Dillema. It didn’t stop there…

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The More You Know

  • A U.S. park ranger named Roy C. Sullivan held the record for being struck by lightning the most times, having been struck — and surviving — seven times between 1942 and 1977.
  • Where the Wild Things Are was supposed to have been about horses—but the illustrator couldn't draw them.
  • Shakespeare's plays feature the word "love" about 10 times more than the word "hate."
  • The glow around the moon is called a "broch."
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